Hit RECord: Joseph Gordon Levitt goes behind the camera at Occupy Wall Street protests. As the movement's Zuccotti Park encampment was dismantled by the New York Police Department this week, the actor and artist -- who shot "Looper" in town earlier this year -- took to the streets with his video camera, encouraging others to use his hours of raw footage, and that submitted by others, to create something meaningful.

Variety: Animation studios taking audiences far, far away. An interesting trend piece: All but one of the U.S.-backed hopefuls in this year's race for the Best Animated Film Oscar ("Rango" is the lone exception) are set overseas. Coincidence - or calculated?

/Film: Playing the domain-name registration guessing game. Lucasfilm has registered a domain name for something apparently called "Star Wars: Identities" and Paramount has registered "Phantom." And just like that, the fanboy communities are set to a-pondering.